Apocalypse
Open one box and you'll get $214.56 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,287 right now, so that means you're $1072.54 short.
Cards inside
$214.56
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,287
TCGplayer market · from $1,465
Difference
-$1072.54
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked September 2, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated December 5, 2025
This is an average. A few very expensive cards pull it upward, so most individual boxes land below it. Opening one box is closer to a lottery ticket than an investment — the number below tells you whether the lottery is priced fairly.
$214.56 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$214.56
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$87.48
About 41% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
41%
Cards worth more by the thousand than listed
Two things separate the two figures. Fees take 10.75% commission plus 2.5% and $0.30 on every order, and postage on a single card runs about $1.10 — a bite a cheap card cannot absorb. And 41% of the box's value sits in cards below roughly $1.66, the point where a card is worth more thrown into a bulk lot at $0.04 a rare than listed, packed and posted. Selling the whole box to a buylist in one go pays less again.
Assumes one card per order, which is the cautious reading — a buyer taking several cards at once splits the fixed costs between them. Fees are TCGplayer Marketplace rates as of February 2026; bulk rates are current cash buylist.
We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.
-$1072.54
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,287 a box you'd come up about $1072.54 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$214.56
Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.
Every pack has a few fixed positions — a guaranteed rare, a wildcard, a foil. Here's what each one is worth across the whole box.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$2.87
Whole box
$103.32
$65.52 kept
Share
48%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.49
Whole box
$53.64
$1.44 kept
Share
25%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.81
Whole box
$29.16
$1.44 kept
Share
14%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.38
Whole box
$13.68
$10.80 kept
Share
6%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.30
Whole box
$10.80
$6.12 kept
Share
5%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.11
Whole box
$3.96
$2.16 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Pernicious Deed
$165.00
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Yavimaya Coast
$164.41
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Phyrexian Arena
$156.89
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Llanowar Wastes
$155.05
Vindicate
$99.47
Shivan Reef
$97.99
Caves of Koilos
$97.97
Desolation Angel
$72.64
Lightning Angel
$70.00
Cromat
$69.11
44 cards. “Copies per box” is how many of that exact card you'd expect from one box on average — under 1 means you usually won't see it at all.
| Llanowar Wastes | rare | $17.64 | 0.82 |
| Shivan Reef | rare | $14.58 | 0.82 |
| Yavimaya Coast | rare | $14.27 | 0.82 |
| Caves of Koilos | rare | $12.50 | 0.82 |
| Vindicate | rare | $12.38 | 0.82 |
| Pernicious Deed | rare | $9.99 | 0.82 |
| Phyrexian Arena | rare | $9.60 | 0.82 |
| Battlefield Forge | rare | $7.74 | 0.82 |
| Cromat | rare | $3.64 | 0.82 |
| Desolation Angel | rare | $3.35 | 0.82 |
| Unnatural Selection | rare | $2.72 | 0.82 |
| Fervent Charge | rare | $2.36 | 0.82 |
| Spiritmonger | rare | $1.94 | 0.82 |
| Lightning Angel | rare | $1.24 | 0.82 |
| Whirlpool Warrior | rare | $1.18 | 0.82 |
| Wild Research | rare | $1.05 | 0.82 |
| Mystic Snake | rare | $1.03 | 0.82 |
| Legacy Weapon | rare | $0.84 | 0.82 |
| Penumbra Wurm | rare | $0.70 | 0.82 |
| Guided Passage | rare | $0.66 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
